IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1609: Apocalypticism and Prognostication in the Early and High Medieval West, II: Around the Year 1000
Thursday 12 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg |
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| Organiser: | Levi Roach, St John's College, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Peter Darby, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester |
| Paper 1609-a | Gerbert of Aurillac and Gregorian Eschatology (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities |
| Paper 1609-b | The Whore of the Apocalypse and Kaiserkritik around the Year 1000 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought |
| Paper 1609-c | New Approaches to an Old Problem: Otto III and the End of Time (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Mentalities, Political Thought, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Apocalypticism and prognostication, though essential aspects of medieval religious belief, have not generally received the attention they deserve from modern historians. The reasons for this seem to be twofold: firstly, already in the Middle Ages contemporaries were wary about such beliefs, which were often dangerously heterodox and tended to be treated with suspicion by the ecclesiastical hierarchy; and secondly, scholars have often been reluctant to admit that the objects of their study may have been influenced by what seem to us to be such 'irrational' beliefs. These sessions seek to challenge such presumptions by re-examining the central role of apocalyptic thought and prognostication in Western Europe in the early and high Middle Ages. |